The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 90% of the 679 1950s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
1,022 audience votes
Key crew
- Shinobu HashimotoScreenplay
- Hideo OguniScreenplay
- Akira KurosawaDirector
- Ryuzo KikushimaScreenplay
- Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer
- Akira KurosawaScreenplay
Cast
- Toshirō MifuneTaketoki Washizu
- Isuzu YamadaLady Asaji Washizu
- Takashi ShimuraNoriyasu Odagura
- Akira KuboYoshiteru Miki
- Hiroshi TachikawaKunimaru Tsuzuki
- Minoru ChiakiYoshiaki Miki
- Takamaru SasakiKuniharu Tsuzuki
- Gen ShimizuWashizu samurai
- Kokuten KōdōMilitary Commander
- Kichijirō UedaWashizu's workman
- Eiko MiyoshiOld Woman at castle
- Chieko NaniwaOld Ghost Woman
Stills
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Themes
japansamuraibased on novel or bookprophecycastlesiegeambitionbetrayalblack and whiteghostjidaigekisengoku period
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